Lecture: 'Applications of cyclic hypervalent Iodine reagents: from catalysis to chemical biology'

Bio

Jérôme Waser started his Ph.D. studies at the ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Erick M. Carreira. During his Ph.D., he worked on the development of new metal-catalyzed amination reactions, which culminated in a new access to azides and hydrazines directly from olefins.

After obtaining his PhD in 2006, he then joined the group of Prof. Barry M. Trost at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. While at Stanford, he worked on the total synthesis of Pseudolaric Acid B, a diterpene natural product displaying interesting antifungal, antifertility and antitumor activity.

His principal focus of research is the development and application of new catalytic methods for the synthesis of bioactive compounds.